Thread:SillyPotato/@comment-1164563-20190430000439/@comment-1971498-20190430143556

LegionZero wrote: Because he wants to distance himself fron the event. Ernest didnt know the truth. Ernest believed that the demon was unrelated to Tony. The more people Dante can get to believe he wasnt Tony the less people who may end up bothering him about it. No where in the episode is this idea of Dante hiding his past remotely contextualized. You're extrapolating on the presented information, but you're not actually presenting any facts about them.

LegionZero wrote: Dante didnt play his friend though. He claimed not to be Tony all through the episode. Correction: Dante says that he's going along with Earnest to keep up the act of being Tony. Both times this is addressed, the wife insists on Dante to keep up the act. The other time this is addressed is when he brings up the fact that he's Tony Redgrave to the grandmother but not the same Tony at all and how he's willing to keep up the fact for Earnest as long as the grandmother told him his location.

So no, Dante doesn't claim to be Tony throughout. In fact, he even spells it out that he's acting as Tony even though he's not the same person.

LegionZero wrote: I am not sure what that is suppose to mean. "I was wondering what you'd look like, but you are still just a kid." The word "still" implies that there was a previous meeting between the two of them and that to the demon, Dante is still young. Wrong. "Still" infers that the demon recognizes that Dante is a young person much to his surprise, which makes sense considering that demons can live far more than mortals. He even acknowledges that he doesn't recognize Dante's appearance and was surprised by it, something that you conveniently ommitted in your argument. The context you're insisting misconstrues the demon's dialogue with Dante.

LegionZero wrote:

If you ignore the subtext and clues. The fact that Dante knew the exact location of the box is a dead give away. And you're ignoring the fact that Dante outright denied being Tony even going so far as saying that his identity as Tony Redgrave has nothing to do with person and how he's willing to keep playing as the friend if need be. It's your choice to ignore blatant text presented in the script but that doesn't change it from being a fact.

Also, Dante deducing the location of the box just means he's adept with the behavior of kids (with Vergil during their childhood after all), and no where in the episode is it implied that he even understood the context of the promise considering that the wife actually did and noticed that he didn't which is what exposed Dante's facade as Tony.

I've presented you with facts and dialogue straight from the source, yet all you've presented are mere speculation based on assumed subtext and extrapolations.